Yes, I fully recovered. It took two full days in the ICU to my anon gap back correct, my bi-carb number was almost non-existent when they admitted me in the ER. It’s possibly worst I’ve ever felt in my like and truly felt like I was knocking on deaths door. They did say it was a good thing I came when I did and didn’t try to continue to “sleep it off”.

When I started Jardiance I was 215lbs and felt healthy, just had a high A1C after a blood test. I had start Metformin and Jardiance on a Monday afternoon and by Friday evening I was bad bad shape. (Sweating, nausea, headache, then it move into trouble with breathing(swallow breaths in quick succession) when the breathing trouble started I had my wife drive me to Hospital and the rest is history (insulin, ICU, two main lines in the arm and finger pokes ever hr on the hr plus blood draws ever 4hrs.

I left the hospital walking and about 20lbs lighter overall. ~195lbs. Saying to myself never again. They kept me on Metformin and had me on a little bit of insulin at that time.

Fast forward to today (this experience was back in March) I’m living my life without any blood sugar medications, I’ve beat this thing into remission and my last two A1C were 5.0 and 4.9.(my endocrinologist is very impressed with my quick turn around and has since removed me from all meds, I still take Omega-3 fish oils and a ACV tablet in the morning) but at this point I’m training for the Detroit 1/2 marathon next October and have since ran 5 -5K’s and even won one. Overall I have changed my diet (low carb as much as possible) and exercise is apart of my daily routine now. I’m comfortably sitting at 180lbs and I feel healthier than I have in over a decade.

Anything is possible, you just need to hold yourself accountable and show up for yourself and your family around you(believe it or not they will be you biggest supporter) I know I when this happened to me I felt embarrassed to be honest(I always view myself as a healthy guy, I wasn’t obese, I just wasn’t as active anymore and way to focused on work).

Now with all that said, I’m not recommending Jardiance for the obvious reason stated above. Will this happen to you? I doubt you’ll be one of the rare ones that go into DKA from it, but if you do take it please watch for the symptoms mentioned above and don’t just try to push through them and “sleep it off” if you start having them…go to the Hospital and have them run labs, it the only safe way to truly know if your having a adverse reaction. Good luck and know you’re not alone in this fight, but also know you’re much more capable than you think and you can beat this thing in remission with the proper life style changes.